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Western Belle
Western BelleEar Candy 7-16-24Send For Me    Nat King Cole    Your Hit Parade: 1957 Fever        Peggy Lee    Your Hit Parade: 1958 That Old Black Magic    Louis Prima & Keely Smith    Your Hit Parade: 1958 The Great Pretender    The Platters    Your Hit Parade: The '50's What a Diff'rence a Day Makes    Dinah Washington    Your Hit Parade: 1959 Having A Party        Sam Cooke    Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 When Something Is Wrong With My Baby        Pattie Labelle & Travis Tritt    Rhythm Country & Blues (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay    Otis Redding    Classic Rock: 1968 Love Me Like A Man    Katy Moffatt    Angel Town I Will Not Be Denied    Bonnie Raitt    Nick Of Time Minnie The Moocher        Dave Alexander    Alexander's Goo...
2024-08-012h 00The Learning Podcast
The Learning PodcastSeason 1 TrailerWelcome to The Learning Podcast - A show about human learning and our hunt for knowledge.
2023-11-1001 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 10— Simone Schmidt(part 2): Of Course None Of Us Are FreeThis is part 2 of Ken's interview with Simone Schmidt aka Fiver. Next week Ken sit's down with photographer Samantha Wehbi. Simone Schmidt is a musician and multidisciplinary artist who recently moved to so-called Sackville, New Brunswick for work. Schmidt grew up as a settler in Toronto during Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution and has been involved in resisting austerity since grade school. Schmidt's musical practice involves research-based songwriting, improvisation, analog recording, and a deep fascination with form. They have performed with units like The Highest Order, One Hundred Dollars, and their solo project, Fiver. Their chapter in Displacement City (U...
2023-07-2138 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 09— Simone Schmidt(part 1): The Utility of MetaphorThis is part 1 of Ken's interview with Simone Schmidt aka Fiver. Please watch this channel for part two coming shortly. Simone Schmidt is a musician and multidisciplinary artist who recently moved to so-called Sackville, New Brunswick for work. Schmidt grew up as a settler in Toronto during Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution and has been involved in resisting austerity since grade school. Schmidt's musical practice involves research-based songwriting, improvisation, analog recording, and a deep fascination with form. They have performed with units like The Highest Order, One Hundred Dollars, and their solo project, Fiver. Their chapter in Displacement City (U...
2023-07-1435 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 08 Natalie Wood: 'This Is A Wakening!'In this episode, Ken interviews Natalie Wood. Natalie is an award-winning Trinidadian-born, Toronto-based visual and media artist, a PhD student in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University and a tenured Professor at George Brown College (GBC) where she specializes in teaching social innovation and social economies and is seconded to the role of Black Futures Coordinator. She is a cofounder of the Environmental and Urban Change Black Caucus, fellow at Black Lives Matter’s Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, founder of the Blue Devil Posse and co-founder of the GBC Social Innovation Hub. Her educational pa...
2023-07-0639 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 07 Winnie Ng: The Struggle of Memories Against ForgettingIn this episode, Ken interviews Winnie Ng. Winnie is a labour rights activist and scholar with a deep commitment to anti-racism, equity and worker empowerment. She is Chair emeritus Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Toronto Metropolitan University, the first and only union-endowed Chair at a Canadian university. She began her activist work in the labour movement in 1977 as a union organizer with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; and later on with HERE Local 75. She served as the Ontario Regional Director with the Canadian Labour Congress for 8 years before returning to the academy to complete her...
2023-06-3036 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 06 Samantha Wehbi: Home is a Complex PropositionIn this episode, Ken interviews artist and social worker Samantha Wehbi. Samantha Wehbi (MSW, PhD, MFA) is a professor, author, artist, and award-winning educator. Her research and practice interests have focused on international issues and grassroots community activism and organizing in Canada and abroad including Lebanon, her country of origin. Her creative practice relies on photography to explore our relationship to the communities we inhabit. Her work has explored the complexities of urban landscapes and issues of displacement, postcolonialism, translocality and social change. Her scholarship explores interdisciplinary intersections of art, community practice, and pedagogy. For more on Samantha's work, please...
2023-06-2337 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 05— Ben McCarthy: Sound, the Demon, and the ArchiveIn this episode, Ken interviews Ben McCarthy, cocreator, editor and composer of Downstream from What. Ben McCarthy’s compositional practice takes found sound as source material. Sometimes using text or audio documentary underscored by synthesizers and voice, his compositions and installations raise questions about acoustic epistemologies specifically around the social and economical conditions that produce the listening subject. McCarthy has been recording music for 15 years as a solo artist and collaborator. He won the Dora award for Outstanding Sound Design and Composition in Independent Theatre in 2019. His work with art video game collective SpekWork has been shown at the Venice Bi...
2023-06-1648 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Season 2 Announcement-- Coming soon.Announcing the launch of Season Two of Downstream From What? The art for social justice helps us not only reimagine our world but also to rethink what means we use to reach justice. While not giving up on the ideal of justice, the concerns, means, and endpoints differ radically. Ben McCarthy, Natalie Wood, Simone Schmidt, Samantha Whebi and Winnie Ng offer a rich tableau by which to reimagine art and its many technologies informing justice.
2023-05-1001 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 04— Kiké Roach (part 2) An Actor In The System As DesignedThis is part 2 of Ken's interview with Kiké and the last episode of season one. Please watch this channel for a second season coming up in the new year. Roach (she/her) is the Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has served as an Executive Member of: the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Women’s Coalition for Employment Equity, and Mpenzi: Black Women’s International Film and Video Festival. As a civil rights lawyer, she has advocated for accountability and reform in policing and d...
2022-12-0930 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 03— Kiké Roach (part 1): Selby Street: A Social and Activist HistoryKiké Roach (she/her) is the Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has served as an Executive Member of: the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Women’s Coalition for Employment Equity, and Mpenzi: Black Women’s International Film and Video Festival. As a civil rights lawyer, she has advocated for accountability and reform in policing and detention for many years, representing community organizations. She was a regular commentator on current and legal affairs for CTV News and has appeared as a spokesperson on a var...
2022-12-0229 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 02— Alex Bierk: 'You Can Call Me Al...'In this episode Ken interviews Alex Bierk. Bierk is a self-taught artist, and advocate, who lives in Peterborough, ON with his wife and three children. His career as an artist is interconnected to community work. He has a personal connection to the drug crisis and has become active in outreach work as a result of his own lived experience with addiction. He was recently elected as a City Councillor to represent the residents of downtown Peterborough at City Hall. Alex us represented by General Hardware Gallery in Toronto. You can find and follow Alex @alexbierk on Twitter and Instagram. Also...
2022-11-2539 minDownstream from What?
Downstream from What?Ep. 01— Ken Moffatt: Art, Politics, and Activism'Downstream from What?' explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of cultural creators artists and activists to speak about the link between art and social change. The first season includes interviews with Ken Moffatt, Kiké Roach and Alex Bierk As with the practice of art, the interviews span a great many topics and a wide variety of creative interventions. Thanks for listening. In this first episode Ben McCarthy interviews Ken Moffatt to discuss the sweep of the podcast series, some key themes and how we need art to create change Link: About the Jack L...
2022-11-1846 minSmart Prosperity: The Podcast
Smart Prosperity: The PodcastMar 31: The end of carbon tax politics? & Sucking climate change out of the air1.   Is this the end of carbon tax politics? [min 1:08]Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the federal government’s right to enforce a minimum price on greenhouse gas emissions. Four political insiders and one lawyer that argued the case consider the ramifications.  Gerry Butts – Vice Chairman of Eurasia Group & Former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin TrudeauKen Boessenkool – Professor at the Max Bell School, McGill University & Former Chief of Staff to BC Premier Christy Clark and Former Advisor to Prime Minister Stephen HarperDianne Saxe – Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Ontario...
2021-03-3124 minSmart Prosperity: The Podcast
Smart Prosperity: The PodcastNov 11: Designing a conservative climate agenda & Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies1.  Can Canada's conservatives get serious about climate change?Conservatives in Canada have had a mixed relationship with climate change. How can they re-claim the climate issue? Can they win on climate change? And what does an ambitious but conservative climate agenda look like?[min 2: 30]  Mitch Davidson – Executive Director, Strategy Corp Institute of Public Policy and Economics[min 6:55]  Ken Boessenkool – Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University[min 11:47]  Melissa Lantsman – Vice President, Enterprise Canada2.  Adventures in eliminating subsidies for the fossil fuel sectorIn 2009, Canada joined its G20 peers in committi...
2020-11-1125 minThe Magnus Archives
The Magnus ArchivesMAG 178 - The Processing LineCase ########-18An examination of industrial meat processes.Audio recorded by the Archivist, in situ.Content warnings:- Dehumanisation- Helplessness / Existential dread- Devaluation of human life- Reduction of people based on 'usefulness'- Futility / Inconsequence- Body horror & torture- Body image issues- Medical horror- Paralysis- Arguments- Police brutality (discussion of)- Claustrophobia- Explicit language
2020-09-1024 minArt/Work/Play
Art/Work/PlayAWP02: vr / empathy machine / resourcedWe discuss our experience at the Ryerson conference on 'VR as Empathy Machine' and take up our ambivalence about the medium. We offer several lukewarm cultural critical takes on contemporary digital media and the supposed connection to the real it affords, riff on Baudrillard, frontline work, kvetch about budget cuts, and do a playthrough of our VR documentary ‘resourced’ with a sickly and solemn 9 yr-old. ARTIST STUDIO SPACE FOR RENT AT THE BRANDSCAPE : http://brandscape.club RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FESTIVAL : https://workmanarts.com/rendezvous-with-madness/ Simulations Jean Baudrillard Semiotext(e): https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/144970/Baudrillard_-_Simulacra_and_Simulation.pdf ...
2019-10-081h 14TRIVIALITY - A Trivia Game Show Podcast
TRIVIALITY - A Trivia Game Show Podcast85: #BlessedCruiserweight Champions Matt Coleman and Scott Moffatt join Ken, Matt, Neal, and Jeff for this excellent game. Ken and Scott join forces to take on Neal and Jeff. There’s questions about unusual roommates, Ken thinks that maybe something Jeff has said five times will finally stick, and amends are made to our British listeners. Will Scott be the hero that Ken needs or will Neal and Jeff take this one home?Merchandise:https://inkedandscreened.com/collections/triviality-podcastSupporters:https://www.trivialitypodcast.com/the-cream-of-the-crop/Support us Directly:ww...
2018-12-181h 00The Magnus Archives
The Magnus ArchivesMAG 89 - Twice as Bright#0172404Statement of Jude Perry, regarding... some advice. Recorded direct from subject, April 24th 2017.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Rich Jones, Heather Paulson, Laura Greene, Wren Griffin-Harrigan, Anthony Sigman-Lowery, Jimmy Smith, Alexander Everett, Victoria Barnette, Emmett Lou Moon & and Ken BlakelyIf you'd like to support us, head to www.patreon.com/rustyquillEdited by Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall.Sound effects for this episode provided by saturdaysoundguy & previously credited artists via freesound.org.Check out our merchandise at https...
2018-01-1825 min